On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 23:43:42 -0500, you wrote:
On Thursday 06 January 2005 11:25 pm, Örn Einar Hansen wrote:
Þann Föstudagur 07 janúar 2005 02:04 skrifaði Michael W Cocke:
You're behind the times. Try 20 minutes.
It requires a certain amount of "megabytes" for it to be hacked ... I stated, there's no such traffic going through my wireless. :)
Are wired routers as easily hacked as wireless ones? And how much does it help to change the router password from the default?
Paul
What I was referring to was a live demo I saw a few weeks back - using a laptop, a standard wireless network card, and several freely available linux programs (freely available if you know where to look), the wireless network in an adjacent office suite was completely broken in about 20 minutes. Everything that went over the link was showing up in clear on the laptop - credit card numbers, passwords, client data... WEP 128 is about as useless as Windows. You can't do that on a wired lan, which is all that I'll be using from here on, thanks. Scared the crap out of me, to be completely honest. Mike- -- If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs... You may have a great career as a network administrator ahead! -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments,